Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met families of the victims of the Tehran plane crash Friday as Canadian investigators scrambled to get to Iran.
The private conversations between Trudeau and the families of some of the victims in Toronto follow the prime minister's assertion on Thursday that multiple intelligence sources had indicated the Ukraine International Airlines flight was brought down by an Iranian missile.The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, meanwhile, was working to get a team into Iran after being invited by its government to take part in the investigation into the cause of the crash.
Yet as Trudeau met the families and the TSB was preparing its team, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced the details of its promised new sanctions against Iran. That country, in return, accused the U.S. of spreading lies about the crash. Iran, meanwhile, has defended its handling of the crash investigation, with its officials ruling out a missile attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky echoed those calls, writing on Facebook in Ukrainian that while allegations the plane crashed because of a missile has "not been ruled out, as of today it is not confirmed."
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